A conversation with physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, polyglot and polymath - Charley Lineweaver.
00:00 - My introduction
08:57 - Charley’s fascinating early years
12:14 - From an English/History degree to physics
13:53 - Charley’s historic work on the Cosmic Microwave Background
17:34 - Methods of probing deep space
19:51 - Our accelerating universe
22:15 - Dark Matter Candidates
23:20 - The Fermi Problem and the “Planet of the Apes” Hypothesis
28:37 - Natural experiments in the evolution of intelligence
33:38: What can the early appearance of life on Earth tell us about aliens?
37:31: Non-intelligent alien life.
38:06: Deep homology and misconceptions about convergent biological evolution
44:31 The Shadow Biosphere
48:53 The significance of extremophiles
50:23 Does life arise from non-life easily or not? What do we know?
53:32 What is life?
55:56 A “debate” about people?
1:10:20 - The Potato Radius
1:15:00 - What Charley is working on now
